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Jerry Speiser

Jerry Harold Speiser (born 12 August 1953) is an Australian musician. He is best known as the drummer and a founding member of 1980s pop/new wave group Men at Work,[1][2] which had Australian, US and UK hits with their singles "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Down Under" and their albums Business as Usual and Cargo. He left the band in 1984 and was a member of other groups including FX, One World and Frost.[1]

Jerry Speiser
Speiser in 1983
Background information
Birth nameJerry Harold Speiser
Born (1953-08-12) 12 August 1953 (age 69)
Australia
GenresPop, new wave
Occupation(s)Drummer
Years active1979–2020

Biography

In an early session, he played on Greg Sneddon's Mind Stroll album in 1974, Sneddon was also part of the initial Men at Work line-up. He was also a drummer in a local band called Numbers in 1978 and early 1979.

Following Men at Work's break-up in 1985, he briefly joined pop band FX[2] (featuring keyboard player John McCubbery), and then Ross Hannaford's band One World as a guitarist.[2] In 1986, he and former Men at Work producer and sound engineer Peter McIan had a short stint with American band The City, where he played the drums while McIan played keyboards and produced the album Foundation. After that, Speiser joined pop rockers Frost[2] where he played the drums in the single "You and Me" from their album The Usual Suspects.

Speiser (Drums/vocals) and Ben Fitzgerald (Guitars/vocals) co-founded a guitar-driven style rock band Where's Claire? In 1990, they were joined by Andrew Midson (Bass/vocals) and Brenden Mason (Guitars/vocals) and released their first commercial album, Long Time Coming, in 2002. He also formed his own low keyed rock band The Working Stiffs and had a single called "Who Can It Be Down Under?" [3] By 2012 Speiser was a drummer for an Australian band After Burner.

References

  1. ^ a b Holmgren, Magnus; Warnqvist, Stefan. . passagen.se. Australian Rock Database (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d Spencer, Chris; Zbig Nowara; Paul McHenry (2002) [1987]. . The Who's Who of Australian Rock. Noble Park, Vic.: Five Mile Press. ISBN 1-86503-891-1. Archived from the original on 15 October 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2010. Note: [on-line] version established at White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition.
  3. ^ . Stereolaffs.com. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2011.

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